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#koha: Development IRC meeting 13 July 2016
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Meeting started by cait at 14:08:13 UTC.  The full logs are available at
http://meetings.koha-community.org/2016/development_irc_meeting_13_july_2016.2016-07-13-14.08.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* Introductions  (cait, 14:08:17)
  * wahanui, a bot that has become sentient  (wahanui, 14:08:17)
  * Jonathan Druart  (Joubu, 14:08:34)
  * Katrin Fischer, BSZ, Germany  (cait, 14:08:52)
  * LINK:
    https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_13_July_2016
    (cait, 14:09:10)
  * Kyle M Hall, ByWater Solutions  (khall, 14:09:36)
  * Mirko Tietgen, koha.abunchofthings.net  (drojf, 14:09:57)
  * Ruth Bavousett, nobody important.  (druthb, 14:10:08)
  * Owen Leonard, Athens County Public Libraries  (oleonard, 14:10:10)

* announcements  (cait, 14:11:46)

* Review of coding guidelines  (cait, 14:13:02)
  * Should cache-only bugs require benchmarks to prove confirm speed
    improvements?  (cait, 14:13:28)
  * Marcel  (marcelr, 14:15:27)
  * ACTION: Joubu is going to check if some performance testing can be
    included in the qa scripts (launch a series of tests and compare
    diff)  (cait, 14:25:04)
  * VOTE: Voted on "new coding guideline: performance and chache related
    patches should include benchmarks of some sort to prove their
    effects. Question?" Results are, yes: 7  (cait, 14:28:17)
  * AGREED: new coding guideline: performance and chache related patches
    should include benchmarks of some sort to prove their effects.
    (cait, 14:28:17)
  * ACTION: khall to add new benchmark rule to the coding guidelines
    (cait, 14:28:48)

* Bugs in discussion  (cait, 14:29:26)
  * Topic: Koha::Patrons::Import (bug 12598) vs Koha::Exporter::Record
    (bug 14722)  (cait, 14:29:48)
  * ACTION: Joubu to ask on the mailing list about which namespace
    scheme should be used for the 'export things'  (cait, 14:42:31)
  * ACTION: ... delete last action  (cait, 14:45:04)
  * ACTION: ... and action item is in effect again  (cait, 14:46:36)
  * Topic:  Allow Koha::Objects to be used as hashrefs ( Bug 15759 )
    (cait, 14:46:58)
  * ACTION: khall volunteers to focus on rewrite patches for QA  (cait,
    15:00:20)
  * ACTION: Jobuu to provide a list of bug numbers waiting for QA in
    that area atm  (cait, 15:00:38)

* Deprecate support for Debian Wheezy?  (cait, 15:00:57)
  * Deprecating Wheezy because of problems with ES, Plack, Apache 2.4 -
    will mean: note in release notes, not fixing bugs specific to
    wheezy, not backporting from packaging side  (cait, 15:06:26)
  * VOTE: Voted on "Should we officially deprecate Debian Wheezy?"
    Results are, yes: 4  (cait, 15:09:10)
  * AGREED: Wheezy is officially deprecated  (cait, 15:09:21)
  * ACTION: bag to add a note to the next release notes  (cait,
    15:09:30)

* General development discussion (trends, ideas, ...)  (cait, 15:10:01)
  * Topic: thoughts on Angular vs React  (cait, 15:12:20)
  * ACTION: khall to provide a proof of concept for using React in Koha
    (cait, 15:17:09)
  * more information in chat log about this - not easy to info all :)
    (cait, 15:17:35)
  * cait would be interested in an online api tutorial - how to set it
    up, test, validate etc.  (cait, 15:22:43)
  * ACTION: khall to add react/angular and frontend build to to next
    agenda ;)  (cait, 15:24:47)
  * ACTION: oleonard to start a mailing list thread about the frontend
    build tool  (cait, 15:28:54)

* Updates from the QA team  (cait, 15:30:25)
  * read Joubu's summary emails "what's on in koha-devel"! :)  (cait,
    15:34:03)
  * Joubu started move of C4::Members to Koha::Patrons  (cait, 15:34:16)

* Set time of next meeting  (cait, 15:36:02)
  * AGREED: next meeting will take place on august 10 at 19 UTC  (cait,
    15:39:17)



Meeting ended at 15:39:29 UTC.



Action items, by person
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* bag
  * bag to add a note to the next release notes
* Joubu
  * Joubu is going to check if some performance testing can be included
    in the qa scripts (launch a series of tests and compare diff)
  * Joubu to ask on the mailing list about which namespace scheme should
    be used for the 'export things'
* khall
  * khall to add new benchmark rule to the coding guidelines
  * khall volunteers to focus on rewrite patches for QA
  * khall to provide a proof of concept for using React in Koha
  * khall to add react/angular and frontend build to to next agenda ;)
* oleonard
  * oleonard to start a mailing list thread about the frontend build
    tool
* **UNASSIGNED**
  * ... delete last action
  * ... and action item is in effect again
  * Jobuu to provide a list of bug numbers waiting for QA in that area
    atm



People present (lines said)
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* cait (159)
* khall (91)
* Joubu (71)
* drojf (33)
* huginn (18)
* marcelr (13)
* oleonard (11)
* wahanui (6)
* oleonard_ (4)
* vfernandes (3)
* druthb (2)
* bag (2)
* eythian (1)
* reiveune (1)
* morgane (1)
* nengard (1)



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